About Me

Wendy VanHatten, a retired successful healthcare administrator, now focuses her writing and her work on travel, food, and wine. Here is where she offers practical tips, suggestions, and trends as well as showcasing her travels. She is a member of International Food Wine Travel Writer Association

She posts on both TravMedia and Travel Massive. In addition, she has been named a travel blogger to watch several years in a row from WE Magazine.

As co-founder of Forks Corks and Brews you can find her latest recipes and photos on her blog. An accomplished cook, recipe developer, and cookbook author, she also offers wine suggestions to pair with her recipes and reviews kitchen products and gadgets.

VanHatten writes regularly for WE Magazine as a food, wine, and travel editor,  and for Women of Wisdom Magazine. She contributes to a variety of other publications with her travel and wine articles.

She is a published author of children’s books, the Max and Myron series. In addition, she has authored several mysteries.  VanHatten lives in southern California with her husband, who travels and enjoys wine with her and tastes tests her recipes, and Shadow, her office cat, who makes sure his bowl is full.

Contact VanHatten at wvanhatten@gmail.com for more information.